Improved water-cooler



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No. 58,793. Patented Oct. 16, 1866.

Inventor: 'MM- /V ffz M/ Witnesses:

AM. PHUTOLITHD.CO.N.Y. (OSBORNE'S PROCESS) UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

JOHN EOKERT, OF MADISON, INDIANA.

IMPROVED WATER-COOLER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 58,793, dated October 16, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN EGKERT, of Madison, Jefferson county, Indiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Water- Ooolers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, being an axial section of a water-cooler embodying my improvement.

Uy invention relates to the construction of the bottom of the receptacle in a Water-cooler which enables the temporary removal and repair or replacement of the faucet without taking the cooler apart, the said form of bottom also enabling ice to be dropped Withoutdanger of breaking the bottom.

A is a sheet-metal water-chamber provided with a cast or other thick metal bottom, B, having a raised margin, b, which is united to the body A by soldering. The bottom B may be of any suitable meta-l; but I prefer, and use in practice, a casting composed of one pound of lead, halt' a pound of block-tin, and one ounce of antimony.

C is a thimble, which may be of the same material as the bottom B. The thimble G passes through the outer casing, D, and :is screwed into a screw-threaded bush, B', in

raised margin Z1 of the bottom B. The thim- JOHN EQKERT.

Witnesses W. T. FRIEDLEY, J. Y. ALLrsoN. 

